I think calling the no 3 set of answers “not so right” is a bit unfair as ultimately people are still doing it to get rewards and therefore doing it to please Allah(swt), which means doing it to get closer to Allah(swt).
Apologies if I have jumped the gun before a further explanation from your side.

[Well, first let me confess that I know that one of the answers was yours. You mentioned me and Dubai so I put it all together.]

What I understand from No. 3 was that the PRIMARY reason was incorrect. And the primary reason needs to be for the reward, nothing else. As secondary reasons, they were mostly okay, but not as a primary reason.

Are they “ultimately” doing it for the reward? This is one of the reasons why I differentiated between No. 2 and No.3.

Does this mean that those in No. 1 and 2 are more “sincere” than No.3? Not necessarily.

Insha-Allah, I’ll explain all of the above in the next part.

And no apologies needed. As I said, I’m not infallible.

PS. I was being very polite when I said “not so right”. You know how blunt I generally am….

I think they were well justified after all some people can lost in the pursuit of the means and consider it the real Goal! Thus minimising their rewards, we need to keep each other in check every once a while. They will thank you in the hereafter if anything its a good sincerity recheck. Why am I doing this? A conscious question that needs to be asked at every instance, as it helps to build taqwa. Love all your posts.